IN ANCIENT ROME “bird seers” were priests, or augurs, who delivered prophecies based on their observations of birds. The ...

I am an all-too-infrequent visitor to such places, and my eyes are feasting on the garden at my feet: the glossy green ... There are around 5400 species of passerine, which together make up a little ...

For a limited time, Allbirds is selling Tree Dasher 2 active shoes for as low as $67. The regular retail price of the shoes ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many other great questions in her book, The Bird Watching Answer Book. (For the ...

The emblem bird of the United States, majestic in its appearance. It is not always so majestic in habits: it often feeds on carrion, including dead fish washed up on shore, and it steals food from ...

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